briansm

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by briansm 7d ago
The Future's Bright. The Future's Onion.
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by briansm 9d ago
Fossil fuels were always worth way more than people ever realized. Like Joni says, "you don't know what you've got till it's gone."
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by briansm 9d ago
The hash is merely a convenience, the _actual_ public key used in transactions is present in the ledger and available to anybody who wants it.
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by briansm 29d ago
Me too, and I'm now grateful to have been proven wrong. But then again I certainly wouldn't want to be the youth of today and expect the same outcome.
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by briansm 2mo ago
Cerebras have special techniques to work around etching errors / bad cores on their wafers. This is possible since their wafers are effectively hundreds of identical copies of redundant cores. Can't do that for a globally unique m
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by briansm 2mo ago
Reminds me of when November 2019 came and went (the date that Blade Runner is set in)
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by briansm 2mo ago
Make hay while the sun shines.
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by briansm 3mo ago
I think so, specifically lossy compression though. A modern version of the book would include an extra section in the 'Lossy compression' chapter - 'Text' (alongside Images/Video/Audio) that would discuss LLM&#
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by briansm 4mo ago
LLM's seem to be the weird interesting outcome of applying lossy (de)compression concepts to text instead of the audio/image/video domains where they have traditionally been used.
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by briansm 4mo ago
Strange that they are feeding raw audio in. Even in humans, there is a hardware transform to the frequency domain (the cochlea) before data is fed to the brain, effectively doing this part in the LLM seems inefficient.
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by briansm 4mo ago
My favorite is 'spongy', an underwater journey through a Menger-sponge fractal in 128 bytes: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=53871 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36BPql6Nl_U I'm more im
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by briansm 4mo ago
For a more laid-back chill 'rain' demo, have a look at "Rainy 32b" 32-byte x86 demo: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=86923 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCgIQuPHb5w
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by briansm 4mo ago
I had to read that twice, I first thought you meant 4 GB of _storage_... Worrying about only having 4GB of RAM.... that's how I know I'm getting old I guess. Kids these days don't know they're born.
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by briansm 4mo ago
I've always wondered if it was perhaps the inspiration for the novel Neuromancer (2 AI's in different continents plotting to combine with each other to form a global super-intelligence)
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by briansm 5mo ago
We got both, so twice as good.
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by briansm 5mo ago
Ah, 'demand destruction', which in sounds positive in theory but in practice will likely mean poverty, famine and 'population reduction'.
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by briansm 5mo ago
You are assuming that a battery is full at 4.2V and empty at 0V. In practice a Lithium Ion battery is empty at 3V. You are also assuming the relationship between capacity and voltage is linear - it is not.
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by briansm 5mo ago
In the developed world we have 'energy slaves' instead; around 100 per person in the USA in the 2020's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_slave This is arguably the reason why the Overton window has s
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by briansm 6mo ago
That will happen on the day there is enough to go around. Unfortunately I fear that time has long gone. As long as the population is growing and/or the (fossil) energy is falling there will never be enough to go around.
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by briansm 6mo ago
I keep reading this, is it meant to be a joke? What is being won?
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by briansm 7mo ago
People are losing their minds at the prospect of oil availability dropping just 20% for a month or two with the closing of the Strait of Hormuz - even just this could collapse the global economy. So yea, no way is oil stopping or even dippi
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by briansm 7mo ago
Just to mention the original was cited in the most recent Veritasium video: "The Internet Was Weeks Away From Disaster and No One Knew" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoag03mSuXQ (at about the 9:50 mark)
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by briansm 7mo ago
Economies die from lack of produce though.
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by briansm 7mo ago
I wonder if you could use the same technique (RAM models as ROM) for something like Whisper Speech-to-text, where the models are much smaller (around a Gigabyte) for a super-efficient single-chip speech recognition solution with tons of con
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by briansm 7mo ago
I think this lack of 'G' (generality, or modality) is the problem. A human visualizes this kind of problem (a little video plays in my head of taking a car to a car wash). LLM's don't do this, they 'think' only
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by briansm 9mo ago
Has overtaken Saudi Arabia as nation with largest proven oil reserves. Although it is 'heavy' oil, the 'brown coal' of liquid fossil reserves (i.e. low quality). The fact that such a fuss is being made about low-grade oi
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by briansm 9mo ago
At least HDMI is a 'low frequency' connector, often only ever plugged in once, as opposed to USB (or refueling a car)
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by briansm 11mo ago
I believe this is what "Cargo-Cult Programming" is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_programming
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by briansm 11mo ago
Using 'copy' as a clipboard script tells me OP never lived through the DOS era I guess... Used to drive me mad switching between 'cp' in UNIX and 'copy' in DOS. (Same with the whole slash vs backslash mess.)
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by briansm 11mo ago
I believe this is why all modern digital watches use a 32768.0Hz crystal resonator, it's a power-of-2 frequency above the 20Khz top end of the range of human audio perception, to avoid the whole 'tinnitus on your wrist' thing

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